From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Song Liu Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] raid5: call clear_batch_ready before set STRIPE_ACTIVE Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 16:58:56 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20200616092552.1754-1-guoqing.jiang@cloud.ionos.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20200616092552.1754-1-guoqing.jiang@cloud.ionos.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Guoqing Jiang Cc: linux-raid List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 2:25 AM Guoqing Jiang wrote: > > We tried to only put the head sh of batch list to handle_list, then the > handle_stripe doesn't handle other members in the batch list. However, > we still got the calltrace in break_stripe_batch_list. > > [593764.644269] stripe state: 2003 > kernel: [593764.644299] ------------[ cut here ]------------ > kernel: [593764.644308] WARNING: CPU: 12 PID: 856 at drivers/md/raid5.c:4625 break_stripe_batch_list+0x203/0x240 [raid456] > [...] > kernel: [593764.644363] Call Trace: > kernel: [593764.644370] handle_stripe+0x907/0x20c0 [raid456] > kernel: [593764.644376] ? __wake_up_common_lock+0x89/0xc0 > kernel: [593764.644379] handle_active_stripes.isra.57+0x35f/0x570 [raid456] > kernel: [593764.644382] ? raid5_wakeup_stripe_thread+0x96/0x1f0 [raid456] > kernel: [593764.644385] raid5d+0x480/0x6a0 [raid456] > kernel: [593764.644390] ? md_thread+0x11f/0x160 > kernel: [593764.644392] md_thread+0x11f/0x160 > kernel: [593764.644394] ? wait_woken+0x80/0x80 > kernel: [593764.644396] kthread+0xfc/0x130 > kernel: [593764.644398] ? find_pers+0x70/0x70 > kernel: [593764.644399] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x70/0x70 > kernel: [593764.644401] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 > > As we can see, the stripe was set with STRIPE_ACTIVE and STRIPE_HANDLE, > and only handle_stripe could set those flags then return. And since the > stipe was already in the batch list, we need to return earlier before > set the two flags. > > And after dig a little about git history especially commit 3664847d95e6 > ("md/raid5: fix a race condition in stripe batch"), it seems the batched > stipe still could be handled by handle_stipe, then handle_stipe needs to > return earlier if clear_batch_ready to return true. > > Signed-off-by: Guoqing Jiang > --- > Another alternative would be just not warn if STRIPE_ACTIVE is valid for > the batched list. > > What do you think? > This patch looks good to me (haven't tested yet). Let's try with this one. Thanks, Song